A paramedic has been attacked while trying to help a patient at Hinckley’s nearest emergency hospital - the second such incident in the space of days.

On January 1 reports of a fight between a patient and an ambulance technician led to police being called to Nuneaton’s George Eliot Hospital.

A 33-year-old was arrested at the scene before being charged with common assault the following day. She is due to appear at court.

It isn’t clear what injuries the paramedic suffered in the attack, which came just two days after a similar incident in the town.

On that occasion paramedics were called to Abbey Street at 3.40am on December 30 to reports of a man in need of medical attention.

When they arrived a female paramedic was attacked and needed hospital treatment for a hand injury.

The ambulance that attended was so badly damaged it had to be taken off the road.

A 37-year-old man from Nuneaton was arrested on suspicion of common assault and has been subsequently been released on bail until later this month.

In between both incidents ambulance bosses spoke out on New Years Day after a Coventry woman was spared jail for a nasty assault on paramedics and University Hospital staff.

The 33-year-old woman was handed a suspended sentence following the attack in November.

Steve Elliker, West Midlands Ambulance Service’s head of security and safety, said: “It is extremely disappointing that two female staff members have suffered physical violence at hospital, following helping the woman after she was found unconscious in Coventry city centre.

“The trust welcomes the sentence that has been passed on this occasion, it is completely unacceptable that ambulance staff, who are responding to help people, should have to face violence and verbal abuse.

“The trust has a zero tolerance policy in place and works extremely hard to bring the full weight of the law to bear on anyone who attacks our staff.

“It is simply not acceptable that staff who are there to help people, suffer at the hands of patients, their relatives or other people at the scene.